Bicarb for a workout? Yeah, you want alka seltzer. However, an aspirin and bicarb regime is going to have less long-term effect on your regime than what sort of push ups you are doing. If you are committed to taking it on a daily basis (for whatever reason) try 1/4 tablespoon in 8 oz of water three times a day.

The Turing is not the end all be all of AI - it is the beginning. ANYONE can fool you into thinking that they are a thinking rational person during within five minutes of conversation; after that, you realize they are Amway salesman, Kid Rock fans and/or whatever else wouldn't be worth your time but would disqualify them from being someone you would respond to as an equal.

Passing the Turing would mean a great deal for those who employ telemarketers, or who are willing to pay for smarter chat-bots to drum up business, but in terms of true AI, it just means that we can approximate someone who is passable at small-talk. Like getting trapped by the HAL-9000 at a dinner party.

Can we put Abbot and W. into cryo and then revive them once our entire civilization has been lost to rising flood waters and snakes so they can join the few remaining humans who are clustered at the molten poles scratching out a sustenance based existence? I mean, at the very least, it would make a good reality show, right?

"Armor Wars" is pretty much the defacto vintage Iron Man story. The older stuff was pretty rough going up until Extremis. It remained a pretty solid title after that, although there was some character derailment with Civil War.

The whole Director of S.H.I.E.L.D story-line was very very solid. tuned out after Fraction's run. (found the current creative team to be too meh..) Also: you may want to check out XO Manowar which is a Valiant title, but definitely worth a read if you are into Iron Man.

Just a reflex by this point in the day, but: I want to urge Representative Saira Blair to tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to scrap his plan to allow Internet service providers to charge for preferential treatment.

Long time Iron Man reader, and my personal favorite was "Haunted" by Charles Knauf.

Possibly the best continuation of Extremis IMO, cameo from Doc Samson, reappearance of the Silver Centurion Armor, and the Mandarin spends the whole of the story just being a stone-cold badass. Killer Read.

Alright, can we get a Kickstarter going for developing some kind of communal or co-opt municipal or regional level broadband service that fucking works? Can we start our own carriers? With blackjack and hookers?

Well fed populations have a much harder time standing in front of tanks. Too many happy meals for violence as a form of political change... Now, once they take the Internet AND our Code Red Mountain Dew and hotpoc... aw, fuck it, regulated Internet is just too much bullshit, I don't even want to live in the world anymore.

If you titrate narcan to vital signs (rather then patient mentation) you can stabilize on-scene and during transport, and leave the ER to deal with any unpleasantness. But, I guess finding a meme that would fit appropriate care and treatment might be a little more difficult.

Had any of us been born at a different time or under a different set of circumstances, who is to say that we would not be behind the problems that we are faced with today. Each generation has a responsibility to those that follow. Yes we have, all of us, been royally screwed, but if we don't get off our collective asses and start dealing with the problems we inherited then imagine what will be said about us when the next generation takes our place.

"Laziness" and "entitlement" are only become part of the issue when we resort to embittered fingerpointing and resentment. Its our world now, what do we want to do with it?

You know... except for retire, use antibiotics, survive the climate or have the ability to pay back our student loans. (The pricks...)

The heat is brutal, the festivals are a pain, live music is a joke, traffic is a nightmare, cost of living is out of control, mass transit.. don't even get me started on CapMetro.

I spent last year out of town, and plan to head that way again at the end of the year. Honestly, Barton Springs and the Alamo Drafthouse don't even begin to make up for the way this town has grown in the past few decades. - It's become either leave willingly or get priced all the way out to Georgetown.